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Useful Websites

Purdue Owl Research and Citation
These OWL resources will help you use the research you have conducted in your documents. This area includes material on quoting and paraphrasing your research sources, as well as material on how to avoid plagiarism.
College Writing-University of North Carolina
This handout will help you figure out what your college instructors expect when they give you a writing assignment. It will tell you how and why to move beyond the five-paragraph essays you learned to write in high school and start writing essays that are more analytical and more flexible.

English Databases

Linguistics Database
The Linguistics Database includes full-text journals and other sources in linguistics.
Literary Reference Source eBooks
ebooks focused on literature and literary criticism
Literary Reference Source Plus
Literature, criticism, author biographies
ProQuest One Literature
ProQuest One Literature is the destination for all aspects of literature research, teaching and learning—providing the best tools and content available in the market to support today’s study of literature.
Salem Literature
Salem Literature is a robust online database providing access to the Critical Insights series. Critical Insights is a comprehensive series that distills the best of both classic and current literary criticism of the world's most-studied literature.

General Databases

Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is a multi-disciplinary database, with more than 6,100 full-text periodicals, including more than 5,100 peer-reviewed journals.
Arts & Humanities Database (ProQuest)
peer-reviewed journals, selected trade, and consumer titles relevant to applied arts and cultural studies
Films on Demand
Films on Demand consists of 15,500 video titles (77,000 segments) in Humanities & Social Sciences, Business & Economics, Health, and Science.

Along these lines : writing paragraphs and essays, with writing from reading strategies

English & communication for colleges

Wordsmith : a guide to college writing

The Writer's workplace with readings : building college writing skills

Citation Guide

Citation Library Guide
A link to the Citation Guide, covering APA, MLA, and Chicago Style.

Electronic Journals

Bitter Southerner
Music, Poetry, Climate, Literature, Culture, Food, Art, Politics, Human Rights, Social Justice, and more

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Note that after you retrieve the initial set of "hits" from your search, which might include literally thousands of titles, the smaller column on the left side of the screen contains several methods of further refining what you're looking for in terms of

Full text (not just a summary)
Date of publication (if using only current sources is important)
Type of publication (check the box next to magazines and compare those results to ones you get when you put a check in the scholarly journals box.)